Irrlicht Engine

btw. you should download some of the latest test builds of blender if you haven't already. -> http://www.blender.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=4825&start=0

there are some really great modeling improvements. slowly blender becomes a real alternative (at least at modeling)...

here is an interesting article which explains why 24 fps isn't enough: http://www.daniele.ch/school/30vs60/30vs60_1.html

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i can't comment about speed either because i am quite new to irrlicht. so far it always has been fast enough for me. i don't like the tone of the first post.

basically you just have to render a mirrored camera view to a texture (can irrlicht do that?) and then project this texture onto the water surface in a shader. with a scrolling uv-bumpmap you can perturb the uv-coordinates a little to achieve some waves. the amount of reflection should depend on the ...

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hots#22180

irrlicht nx seems to have a screenshot function. so you could automatically take a screenshot each frame and then use virtualdub to turn them into an avi.

is this a complete wrapper of the irrlicht api? ...would it be possible to implement a mesh loader like the one zdimitor did ( -> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... ght=#22486 ) with python instead of c++?

vertex shaders can be emulated in software with directx but i don't know how to enable this with irrlicht. emulating pixel shaders isn't possible.